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كتاب مبارز الاقران في تخميس المعلقات
Kitāb Mubāriz al-aqrān fī takhmīs al-Muʻallaqāt.
1200-1323
Amplification (takhmīs) of the Muʻallaqāt by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Mūsawī al-Ṭūsī [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Daftarkhān].
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- [between 1257 and 1323]
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Amplification (takhmīs) of the Muʻallaqāt by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Mūsawī al-Ṭūsī [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Daftarkhān].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب مبارز الاقران في تخميس المعلقات
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Mubāriz al-aqrān fī takhmīs al-Muʻallaqāt.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3508Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9593tv194
- Publisher
- [between 1257 and 1323]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1323
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 71 leaves : paper ; 240 x 160 (180 x 112) mm. bound to 244 x 175 mm.
- Provenance
- Reading statements on fol. 1a, 70b, 71a. Ownership statements on fol. 1b, 2a (dated Ṣafar 723 [1323]). Seal on fol. 2b. Waqf (see fol. 7b-8a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 4239
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 36
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- 15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink, with larger script for headings. Light cream glazed paper. The paper has been frame-ruled. Simply illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, green and blue. Leaves wanting between fol. 2 and 3. Collation notes (see fol. 6b). Foliation in pencil using Arabic numerals. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Lacuna after fol. 2. The first complete poem begins on fol. 6b (Qaṣīdat Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd al-Wāʼilī).
- The date Rabīʻ al-Awwal 655 [1257] in the colophon (fol. 70a) seems to be the date of completion of the text. See Mach, R. Yahuda.
- Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله ربّ العالمين والصلوة ... قال الامير السيّد الشريف ... شمس الدين محمد بن الرضا الحُسينى الموسَوي الطوسي قد استغفرتُ الله تعالى ووجهّتُ هذا الكتاب الي مدايح النبى
- Explicit: فان صاحبها قد تاه في البلد
- Binding Note
- Upper and lower covers and envelope flap in light brown leather stamped? with blue, red and green ink. The upper and lower covers have the same blind-stamped corner pieces and central mandorla. The envelope flap has a portion of the same mandorla on its pointe. Decorated red paper pastedowns and endleaves.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 151
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22f74e9f-28f6-4a58-afde-278b7ec9be21/manifest